High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Raymond Monelle (born in Bristol, England, 19 August 1937; died Edinburgh, Scotland, 12 March 2010). was a music theorist, teacher, music critic, composer and jazz pianist. Monelle wrote three books, dozens of articles on music, and many music criticism reviews in newspapers, mainly for Opera and The Independent His main field of research was Music Signification or, as it is also known, Music Semiotics. Towards the end of his life he wrote a novel, yet to be published, entitled Bird in the Apple Tree, about the adolescence of the composer Alban Berg.